Week 24 in Class Ra

Class: Reception Year: 2023 - 2024

Good afternoon all, 

This week in Ra we have read the book 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson. We enjoyed looking at all the animals that appear in the story. We looked at examples of maps and how the robbers in the book needed a map to find the cow. We created a class map and the children labelled it. We then went outside and drew our own maps of the playground. On Tuesday we created our own ladybird collage pictures. The children used their cutting and sticking skills to create grass, flowers, clouds and a ladybird. We also looked at maps and identified different features such as mountains, rivers, roads and houses. The children enjoyed looking at a map of Holmes Chapel and our school. We have looked at maps of Britain, maps of school and maps of the farm.

In Literacy this week the children wrote the sentence ‘On the map I can see…”. The children also practised spelling and writing the farm animals from our story. We drew our own class pictures of all the animals and learnt the Makaton for each animal. In Phonics this week we have practised reading 'ing' words and revisited some of our tricky words from last term.

In P.E this week we practised our balancing and jumping skills again. We reviewed how to jump safely bending our knees to help us land. We practised balancing along a bench and using her arms to stabilise us. We also practised using our upper body strength to pull ourselves along a bench. The children really enjoyed using the apparatus to practise their climbing this week.

This week has been British Science Week. The class learnt all about science, what is it and why it is important. To celebrate we took part in a whole school science experiment. The children had to predict what biscuit was the best dunker. We looked at a variety of biscuits and

In maths this week, we continued to explore the composition of numbers within 10, focusing on the ‘special case’ of when 2 equal parts combine to make a whole. The children used their skills of comparison to identify when 2 sets are equal or not equal. They saw a range of familiar representations including dice and fingers to explore the idea of ‘2 equal parts’, and then found the whole by combining these parts. The children practised making doubles in their partners using counters. Next week, we will be learning about odd and even numbers.

On Friday it was Red Nose Day. Thank you to everyone for your donations!

Our V.I.P this week has been Olivia. Olivia is a kind and friendly member of our class. Olivia loves the creative area and painting with her friends! Well done! We enjoyed looking at the red teams show and tell this week. Next week it will be yellow group’s turn for show and tell. Please could the yellow team bring in their show and tell on Friday morning.

I look forward to seeing you at the school disco this evening!

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Miss MacWilliam

Show and Tell

Yellow - 22nd March